I am delighted to announce the acceptance of 7 papers to EMNLP 2026 (Main: 4 and Findings: 3).
Congratulations to the entire lab for the hard work!!
The preprints of most of the papers are already available. The remaining will be uploaded soon.
@lcs2lab@YardiScAI@iitdelhi@emnlpmeeting #EMNLP2026
** ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง **
Multi-agent systems are powerful, but they can drastically multiply inference costs. Many existing systems rely on fixed or densely activated agent pipelines without adapting computation to each query: Which agents actually need to be consulted? How deep should the reasoning go? And when is communication worth its compute cost?
Presenting ๐๐๐๐๐ -- Gated Routing and Adaptive Depth for Efficient Reasoning
๐ย Preprint: https://t.co/C9lHUvkPCw
GRADE optimises multi-agent reasoning by:
๐ง ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง:ย We built a hierarchical system governed by lightweight gates that jointly manage agent selection, routing depth, communication, and pruning dynamically per query.
โ๏ธ ๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ : We adapt GRPO for collaborative settings with a novel, critic-free RL recipe that assigns a shared advantage signal to all participating agents and gates during a rollout.
๐ ๐๐จ๐ญ-๐๐ฐ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ: GRADE features an Expert Registry with per-agent calibration maps. You can swap out expert models at inference time using just 64 anchor queries, without retraining the gates.
๐ At ~17B average active parameters, GRADE outperforms all baselines on GSM8K, GPQA, and MMLUPro -- beating the strongest baseline on MMLUPro by 4.8 points while using ~39% fewer active parameters.
w/ @ScientificGhosh
Do check out many more exciting works on small models and agentic coordination being developed as part of our mega project -- ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฎ
https://t.co/Hi96YYqyzm
@lcs2lab@iitdelhi
#LLMEfficiency #MultiagentRounting #AgenticAI
๐ฌ Parmanu (Hindi for Atom) is live.
Parmanu is part of the Computational Social Systems (LCS2) @lcs2lab at IIT Delhi, led by Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty @Tanmoy_Chak , and is our dedicated home for Efficient Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs).
Weโre at a turning point in AI. The future wonโt be defined by scaling alone - it will be shaped by efficiency, accessibility, and real-world deployability. Parmanu is our effort to push this efficiency-first vision forward. โจ๐ค
๐ Explore the project page: https://t.co/siVwaKY1GN
Why Parmanu matters ๐ฅ
โข ๐ A centralized hub for our research, with papers accepted at ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, TACL, ACL, and TMLR
โข ๐ ๏ธ Open access to tools, code, and artifacts spanning model compression, KV efficiency, PEFT, inference optimization, knowledge distillation, and model coordination
โข ๐ง A growing ecosystem focused on making strong language models smarter per parameter, not just larger
What this means for the community
For researchers ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐จโ๐ฌ
A curated, evolving resource tied to top-tier venues
Reproducible artifacts and principled problem formulations
A shared space to advance efficiency-centric LLM research
For practitioners ๐ฉโ๐ป๐จโ๐ป
Practical techniques to deploy LLMs under tight latency and memory budgets
Faster paths from paper โ production
Tools that actually work under real deployment constraints
Whatโs coming in 2026 ๐๐ฎ
โข ๐ Efficient LLM/SLM leaderboards
โข ๐งช Open-sourced efficient LLM artifacts
โข โ๏ธ More tools for compression, distillation, and inference
โข ๐ค Deep integration with Hugging Face and other popular libraries
If youโre excited about efficient, sustainable, and scalable AI, check out Parmanu, share feedback, and collaborate with us. The next wave of LLMs wonโt just be bigger - theyโll be leaner, faster, and more impactful. ๐
#EfficientLLMs #SLMs #ModelCompression #InferenceOptimization #KnowledgeDistillation #AIResearch #NLP #ICLR #ICML #NeurIPS #ACL #TACL #TMLR #IITDelhi #LCS2 #Parmanu
You can now fine-tune LLMs and deploy them directly on your phone! ๐
We collabed with PyTorch so you can export and run your trained model 100% locally on your iOS or Android device.
Deploy Qwen3 on Pixel 8 and iPhone 15 Pro at ~40 tokens/sec.
Guide: https://t.co/8wyQLJfzeC
It was an honour hosting the legend @rao2z at our lab @lcs2lab, @iitdelhi yesterday. We had an engaging 2.5-hour, air-tight session discussing various aspects of LLMs. Thank you, @rao2z, for spending such valuable time with us.
๐ Today I gave a keynote at ACM COMPUTE on โRebooting NLP Teaching in the LLM Eraโ.
Slides: https://t.co/RITzfE4VAI
I proposed a 42-hour NLP curriculum that fuses classical statistical NLP with modern LLMs.
I'd love to hear feedback, perspectives, or experiences from the NLP community โ how are you approaching NLP education today? ๐
@Indiaacm #ACMCOMPUTE #ComputingEducation #AI4Education
I promise you wonโt be able to watch this evals meme video without laughing ๐คฃ
Shreya and I have been working hard on the next iteration of our AI evals course. We've added some new things for students:
1. Exclusive/early access to books, tools, flashcards, and more
2. Private discord to get help anytime you're get stuck (lifetime access)
3. Live office hours + unlimited access to future cohorts so you never have to worry about timing or missing out on new material.
Reply tweet has links
The ICLR'26 reviewer-name leak is a reminder that we're no longer advancing science -- we're trapped in a system that often disrespects it.
Maybe it's time for AI/ML to pause and rethink the entire conference culture.
Wild idea: Stop all major AI/ML conferences for 1-2 years. Let papers live on arXiv, and be submitted to journals. Meanwhile, conferences rebuild real policies and accountability.
Will this ever happen? Probably not.
The incentives are too big. Its about MONEY and PROFIT.
But the community deserves better and we need the courage to imagine alternatives.
@iclr_conf@NeurIPSConf@RealAAAI
SURREAL SERIES is live on @opensea! A collection of dark-themed renders that tell of a journey, with no beginning and no end. Check it out here:
https://t.co/neGcSCuT2M